I'm an admin at TeamWarfare for SW:BF and I'll be working hard to make sure that TeamWarfare is the best place to enjoy playing Battlefront competetively for the PC.

The 8v8 ladder that is now open for signups is currently the largest competetion anywhere currently forming, with 37 teams signed up already and more signing up each day. We're still waiting on basic server admin functionality among other things before we give this game the 'competetion ready' stamp, but you can still get signed up and scope out the competetion in the meantime. We're working directly with Pandemic producers to make sure that the game gets patched to include the features necessary for competetive play, so it shouldn't be too terribly long before we open things up for challenges.

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Originally posted by ECGN|MMmmGood So people are hosting them without any admin functionality at all?

Sounds like they are out to make an easy buck more than anything.

I don't think you have a remote understanding of how the hosting business works. Do hosting companies decide which players to kick or remotely change to a specific map on whim? No, that's what the people renting the servers do. If you want to blame someone for not providing rcon/admin then you should not be looking to the server companies, which are just fulfilling needs but at the software developer. I'm pestered constatly by people that know there is no rcon but still want a server. Unfortunately most of these people wanting servers can't be helped due to the broadcast on 0.0.0.0 "oversight".

The hosting companies have to spend time setting up the servers (costs) and in fact this game is more expensive to some hosters as there is no rcon quit type of command and less to customize, so hosters get bugged more to help with changes and customers need a lot of hand holding when they think something is up with their server but in fact it's their client or the game itself. In that kind of support, this game seems to need about twice the average amount of handholding. Then we look at CPU useage and bandwidth for other costs. The bandwidth here for a 16 slot server should be around 512mbps according to the read me but I've not had anything decent for less than 1mbps. That's one expensive server for us to host. Add in the hand holding too and the constant tweaking we get asked about and your idea of a fast buck is simply ludicrous.

Originally posted by Jetstream I don't think you have a remote understanding of how the hosting business works. Do hosting companies decide which players to kick or remotely change to a specific map on whim? No, that's what the people renting the servers do. If you want to blame someone for not providing rcon/admin then you should not be looking to the server companies, which are just fulfilling needs but at the software developer. I'm pestered constatly by people that know there is no rcon but still want a server. Unfortunately most of these people wanting servers can't be helped due to the broadcast on 0.0.0.0 "oversight".

The hosting companies have to spend time setting up the servers (costs) and in fact this game is more expensive to some hosters as there is no rcon quit type of command and less to customize, so hosters get bugged more to help with changes and customers need a lot of hand holding when they think something is up with their server but in fact it's their client or the game itself. In that kind of support, this game seems to need about twice the average amount of handholding. Then we look at CPU useage and bandwidth for other costs. The bandwidth here for a 16 slot server should be around 512mbps according to the read me but I've not had anything decent for less than 1mbps. That's one expensive server for us to host. Add in the hand holding too and the constant tweaking we get asked about and your idea of a fast buck is simply ludicrous.

Dont talk to me like i'm new to the business, i'm sure i've been renting game servers ( not to mention dedicated/colo ) much longer than you have.

You mentioned the exact points as to why we arent going to rent them, as well as many other providers. If you want to spend all that time hand holding customers and making sure they dont mess it up, thats your call. We use our own custom coded webpanel that has variables in the .ini files and lets them change everything without having to worry about messing something up. No hand holding necessary.

The bandwidth for this game is actually pretty light comparitively to other games with vehicles ( at least for us, we get very good bandwidth rates because we have high commits ). CPU is also very low.

That's not why we dont host it. We dont host it because of the high support cost and low-profitibility. The game simply wont scale if you have 100 customers renting servers and they are ALL asking how to change their server name.

I certainly hope all companies renting SWBF servers at this point are giving their customers full disclosure as to the limitations of the product they are buying.

Personally I think its like selling people cars and not giving them keys. Until there is a real server manager and remote control it is futile to rent a server for public use (i could somewhat understand renting a private server since you dont have to worry about kicking your friends)

My main thing is im being screwed because i dont want to bother with windows boxes.

There should be a class action lawsuit against lucasarts (whoever) for favoring windows hosting companies and not parallel developing a linux server along with the windows server for release.

When a new game like this comes out companies such as myself and others look to the extra attention it brings with it to get some new customers. As my other thread brought out in the vote there was a 3:1 ratio of linux vs windows GSP's (well 3 to 1 favored linux vs windows).

Im still waiting but i think this is going to go the way of the dodo along with the other co's that wont release linux servers for their games.

Originally posted by GotGameServers
There should be a class action lawsuit against lucasarts (whoever) for favoring windows hosting companies and not parallel developing a linux server along with the windows server for release.

That's just ridiculous. Honestly. It's evident that this game was rushed out to release as is, they barely had time to get a dedicated server out, period - let alone a linux server as well.

Please, initiate your lawsuit, I only wish I could be there to hear the judge laugh at you while throwing your case papers out the window. Oh, maybe you could try Judge Judy. I do hope you were kidding...

About time you got it in the right place. Still it's pathetic to show yourself as "an outsider" saying it rox instead of plainly saying its yours, with some features. How can it be great if nothing has started yet :\

Added anyway

-"The glass is neither half-full nor half-empty: it's twice as big as it needs to be."

I have one server available to rent if anyone is interested. You can test the server first. The name is DrunkenMasters-Rent-Me! and it is running on dual 2.8 p4 xeon processors, 2 gigs ddr ram, 73 gig scsi 10000 rpm hard drive. It is connected to a oc48 network located in Dallas, Tx.

Included with the server is a free teamspeak channel, unlimited bandwith, anb a private ftp site.

Ecliptical Realms is a must for the list! We host week-long battles, called Battleweeks, each month simulating real club-based battles of varying size with many different player, club, and event statistics. Awards are given out to the top clubs and players. We also host double-elimination tournaments for Battlefront.

Dude, this post is over 2 years old, almost no one still looks at the BF1 boards anymore. And besides, until vis is kicked out, its more like corrupted realms where what vis and mael say is what happens. That and they put ads to porn sites up for a bit. Not flaming you, flaming the site and most of its admins.(the ones who havent been kicked off because mael and vis disagreed with them.)

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